Category
page 1Anthropology documentary films

Nanook of the North
1922 film by Robert J. Flaherty

Kon-Tiki
1950 Norwegian documentary film directed by Thor Heyerdahl

Moana
1926 film by Robert J. Flaherty

Salt for Svanetia
1930 film by Mikhail Kalatozov

Grass
1925 film by Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack

Lo & Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
2016 film by Werner Herzog

Dead Birds
1963 American documentary film directed by Robert Gardner

Laura Boulton
American ethnomusicologist (1899 - 1980)

Secrets of the Tribe
2010 film by José Padilha

Ra
1971 documentary film
ethnofiction
Ethnofiction is a subfield of ethnography which produces works that introduce art, in the form of storytelling, "thick descriptions and conversational narratives", and even first-person autobiographical accounts, into academic works.

Les maîtres fous
1955 film by Jean Rouch

Trance and Dance in Bali
1952 film by Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead

Ape and Super-Ape
1972 film directed by Bert Haanstra

Raoni
Raoni (also known as Raoni: The Fight for the Amazon) is a 1978 French-Belgian documentary film directed by Jean-Pierre Dutilleux and Luiz Carlos Saldanha on the life of Raoni Metuktire. The film portrays issues surrounding the survival of the indigenous tribes of north central Brazil. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Drums of Winter
1988 film

Nuba Conversations
2000 film by Arthur Howes

People of the Wind
1976 film

Kafi's Story
1989 film by Arthur Howes

The Hunters
1957 ethnographic film